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Twitter’s Video Quality to be Improved for the Users on the Platform
25 Sep, 2021 / 03:26 PM / Reeny Joseph

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Twitter shares a happy news to its users and has finally put an end to Twitter’s poor video quality. The issue has been a long-running frustration for users on the platform. The company shared some potentially promising news videos uploaded to the service will now “appear less pixelated for a better watching experience,” Twitter said in a tweet from its support account.

Twitter removed a pre-processing step in its video pipeline when you upload, the company tells The Verge. After we published this article, the company clarified that this removed step split videos into smaller chunks for ingestion, which could reduce quality because of the additional processing.

App researcher Jane Manchun Wong uploaded a video intended to put the supposed improvements to the test.  A second video was also uploaded.This second video does seem somewhat improved, but it’s hard to tell exactly by how much with the mostly-black background. Both videos are clearly not as crisp as a high-quality video that you might watch on YouTube or Twitch, though. And this upgrade only applies to newly-uploaded videos, so older videos won’t see the improvements.

That said, it’s promising to see that Twitter is putting some effort into improving its video experience. And the upgrades may extend past video quality, as earlier this week, Wong’s research suggested that Twitter is also working on video playback speed options.

Separately, it announced a new feature for its live audio rooms, Spaces, that lets users add Topics to Spaces.

The social media also announced a slew of upcoming updates revolving around original content creation on Twitter Spaces, letting users get more control and security over tweets. The social-media giant will also allow users tweet beyond 280 characters.